She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow. Cormac McCarthy
Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.
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Margaret Atwood
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom
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Corrie Ten Boom
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, just empties today of its strength.
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Ziad K. Abdelnour
Past tears are present strength.
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George MacDonald
That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.
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Stephanie Kuehn
More Quotes By Cormac McCarthy
You have my whole heart. You always did.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The crushing...
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
